Monday, July 11, 2005

500 bricks down the pathfron this half-brick my left sole rests onthere's a lanterncracked 500 milli-meters in length.I know cause Icounted. I got onhands & knees held eyes open w/toothpicks to makesure I maintainedan accurate count.

The 1st brick felt like a toaster -only louder-more romantic about the way it leaves things.I could tell by the way the edges had wornby the way the red was pink that it had takenthe wrong shape somehow -that this brick wasmeant to be a kitchen appliance.

2 - three - 4

The 5th brick was held together by mortor slappedacross the exposed wide side in a way I could tell the work had been done just after lunch.The 6th brick was so covered in smut I could hardly tell it was there. A woman in a blue pants suit was standing on the 7th wondering why my gate was a crawl. She had a fake tatoo of a cross across her left foreman -the top part of the yellow vertical line had flaked off in a way it looked like a capital T. I told her my last name is Taylor -but this puzzled her further.

eight - 9 - ten

An 11 is two 1's put together -a couple of the loneliestnumbers on a date. It rained yesterday & crusteda worm to brick 12. I picked at it. The worm came off easily.When I tapped on the 13th it sounded hollow -like maybeWhitey Bulger was hiding under there. Before I got to 14a mosquito flew in my eye & was squished to death w/the squint of my lash. I almost skipped ahead to the 15thwhile I was pulling pieces of broken toothpicks from under my skin. I dripped blood on brick 16 -pooled & crusted into my eye- the plasma proved to improve my vision.

50 - seventyfive - 100

Suffering from seperation anxiety 101 cracked a clean split when I rubbed it w/ my index finger. Romancemeans nothing to bricks -heartless fucks everyone of them.102 was painted blue -it reminded me of the rubberducky from Bert & Ernie. Y-E-S was written on 103 -wiping the dried blood from my right eye w/ my left forearm- I scratched T-E-R-D-A-Y into 104 w/a piece of glass. 105 had on the suit Napolean wore at Waterloo-I don't know how they got the blood out- but I've neverbeen one to romanticize the truth. 106 housed a burnt out roach.The 107th brick smelled like a chick -but never a second time.

onefifty - 200 - threehundred

#307 was once licked by Abigail Adams during a game of truth or dare.The 308th brick has a family history of being the 308th brick. His father was the 308th brick in the 283rd battalion during the Korean War. His grandfather was originally intended for the Berlin Wall -but was accidentally redirected to a blood bank in Detroit. 309 is wanted for murder -she switched places with 412 (who had an alibi for the evening in question). 413 used to be an extra on The Banana Splits. 414 wets the bed. I know this kid who used to date this girl who saw brick #415 pass out at 32 Flavors last night -it's really serious.

475 - foureightyfiive - 495

On the 1st Thursday of every month 496 serves food to the homeless at the soupkitchen on Essex Street. Brick #497 -not unlike my grandmother- hides bottles of apricot brandy all over the house. 498 walks like an Eqyptian. Brick #499 has been the chieffinancial officer for five bankrupt dot coms. 500is the # of Spree one person can eat before puking.500 was Nelson Reiley's SAT score. The summer of 500 was a great year to vacation in the Fertile Crescent.

The woman in the blue pants suit grabbed the 500th brick and swapped it with the 105th -but this is Boston Common not Waterloo & if there's 1 thing I've learned it's not totrust anyone over the age of twelve that has a fake tatoo.

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